Yeah my hope is they either reduce the upgrading cost (2 rather than 3 is plenty) or actually have higher level gems have a chance of dropping in game.
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Diablo III |OT5| Finally out of Beta
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Yeah my hope is they either reduce the upgrading cost (2 rather than 3 is plenty) or actually have higher level gems have a chance of dropping in game.
Yeah in the console you only needed 2 gems, which helped some. Maybe make bosses drop higher gems? Would be a nice use for ubers too, having a chance to drop very high level gems.
There was speculation- baseless, more like wishful thinking- on the diablo incgamers podcast that they might keep a commodities market even once the ah is gone for things like gems and mats. I don't see why that would really provoke the same kind of rage the ah proper has, so I hope they at least consider that as a solution. Could also serve as a baseline for gear barter as well much like how SoJs did in D2.
Here's my favorite of the "Let's post things we sold a really long time ago!"
I bought these gloves for 1.5 million gold, then flipped them for $54.99 on the AH:
The funny part? It was 2 days before the 1.03 patch when they nerfed the hell of out of IAS. These gloves were at 17% IAS when they were bought, only to drop to 8% 2 days later.
I couldn't believe it.
I bought these gloves for 1.5 million gold, then flipped them for $54.99 on the AH:
The funny part? It was 2 days before the 1.03 patch when they nerfed the hell of out of IAS. These gloves were at 17% IAS when they were bought, only to drop to 8% 2 days later.
I couldn't believe it.
Welp I cannot think of any other way they could have done it. Lifesteal needed to go... Had they just stopped putting it on higher level gear, people would have been hording/wearing level 60 lifesteal belts on their barbs at level cap because the stat is just so powerful.
They could have retroactively removed Life Steal from every item in the game and replaced it with LOH, but some people would have been annoyed by that too.
Forget it, cut your losses and remove the cancer, all of it, Auction House included and start fresh. Its the only way.
The game is going to feel so different when the expac releases. I love it!
xxjuicesxx
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Wowww that's crazy lol
Yeah life steal needs to go, having your health yo yo back and forth is a bit ridiculous. Using wave of light on a pack of 50 mobs with 5% life steal is an ungodly heal every few seconds. I am looking forward to trying different builds and such, we actually may have to go back to early inferno days of having a defensive build, shocker!! Since they're making damage reflect do a fixed amount instead of %, shouldn't be that bad at all.
Fenderputty
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They stated the want the game to still feel fast paced. So I'm hoping they don't try and force us down defensive build paths.
Man when the new patch comes this game really will be the game we all wanted and expected. really looking forward to it. Actually there is still one area where it will never top D2 and thats art style. I still can't get over the warcraftisisation of the game. D2 was Dark fantasy And was bleak and gothic. Maybe RoS will be different.
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Audioboxer
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Got my Demon Hunter up to level 36, first character on the PS3. Kind of missing my Barbarian from my PC copy.
Isn't GAF quite pro-barbarian?
Isn't GAF quite pro-barbarian?
Console version is pretty much a waste at this point. It may be fun now (if you can tolerate auto aim and imprecise controls) but in a few months the PC version is going to be superior in every way. Might as well hop on your barb or do what I'm doing and finish Inferno with every class. DH is last to go and is already level 47.
Legendaries only unlock transmog appearances when identified - existing ID'd items don't work:
http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/274866-consider-legendaries-for-transmogrification/
D'oh. At least it wasn't too expensive to collect them. Nice to have confirmation that it works with Legendaries - apparently it doesn't in WOW.
http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/274866-consider-legendaries-for-transmogrification/
D'oh. At least it wasn't too expensive to collect them. Nice to have confirmation that it works with Legendaries - apparently it doesn't in WOW.
I guess this means unidentified Legendaries have decent value now.
It looks like Hell and Nightmare are being merged into a difficulty called Torment.
They are removing a difficulty from the looks of it, and consolidating them.
Good because 4 difficulties is ridiculous.
Audioboxer
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Me and my GF enjoy it. I mean I'll probably agree with you PC version destroys it, but we are still having fun. Her laptop struggles to run the PC version so at least on PS3 we are experiencing something that's on par.
Well shit, I need to offload a couple hundred legendaries now lol. At least I'm glad we found this out now and I didn't have multiple full characters and a stash for months.
I'd hold off unloading them for now. I expect some backlash on this. I'm waiting to see how it plays out.
spindoctor
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So how do we go about finding the desired unidentified legendaries? Hanging around in trade chat and keep asking? That's going to be fun (and a taste of life after the AH is gone).
For one thing, it will make every legendary drop just a LITTLE more interesting. Since even if the item is shit, you gained a new skin. Also, are not guilds coming to this game as well? Or am I hallucinating, and get this update confused with POE 1.0?
j0hnny_385
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GAF, please advise...
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/john385-2276/hero/2023809
Should I go for Archon build or CM? CM seems like more fun (I'm sorta playing it atm as you can see). I can clean MP4, but sometimes I struggle on certain packs (reflect damage folks mostly).
What should I improve and where? Tips, tricks and recommendations are welcome!
http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/profile/john385-2276/hero/2023809
Should I go for Archon build or CM? CM seems like more fun (I'm sorta playing it atm as you can see). I can clean MP4, but sometimes I struggle on certain packs (reflect damage folks mostly).
What should I improve and where? Tips, tricks and recommendations are welcome!
It's funny, my CC is over 50%, but I can't bother to play CM, Archon is simply more fun, even if more limiting.
That's dumb.
If youre going to reduce it down to 3 difficulties, and are going to have to go back and adjust stuff to make sure its tuned properly, why come up with a new name? Just use Normal, Nightmare, and Hell like you always have.
I don't understand why Blizzard is so hell bent on getting as far away from D2 as they can.
Funny enough, Torment is already used instead of Hell in languages where Hell translates to Inferno (like Portuguese, and Spanish too I believe).
Not going to happen, and thankfully so. We do not need hacked offline, we do not need hacked online characters, broken endgames and solved loot numbers. The only game with a relatively non-broken endgame economy right now is Path of Exile, which cannot be played offline in any way, shape or form. Both Torchlight 2 and D3 Console failed spectacularly in estabilishing an endgame and a community formed around them. PC D3 has community and has endgame economy, but it resembles of the real life with the 1%-99% distribution, that is for sure. But it is at least real, and Loot 2.0/AH removal shall fix it easily.
I'm going to assume the people who can actually afford 1B+ items are part of the 1% then. I was wondering how the health was distributed among the players, and the higher bids always seemed a bit off.
Raptomex
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I've played T2 a lot more because of the 2 issues I have stated with D3 among other reasons. I don't want to rely on other people (AH) to get great items or get great items quicker and I want to be able to run my game with or without internet. I've never used the AH and I'm glad to see it go. I'm always connected to the internet so it's not really a problem but it's not the point. If I was to lose internet for whatever reason it would end up like "well I have nothing to do, I'll play some Diablo 3... oh wait". I understand PoE requires the internet. Then again it's F2P and was advertised as such as far as I know. I may play it when it comes to Steam, we'll see.
spindoctor
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I always find it interesting when folks give POE a pass for being always online because it's free. Apparently all the philosophical objections to always online DRM are worth exactly $60.
Not to mention that if someone MADE money with RMAH in D3, then..suddenly D3 was free after all! Or if it was part of the Annual Pass - basically free, again.
Raptomex: I understand your point of view, of course. D3 is not for you then.
Haha, this is an excellenet comparison.
And now people will tell you that it wasn't that but the RMAH.
This is the truth. TL2 was fun for a single playthrough, but that's all it's good for. D3 console is what it is, a shallow experience full of hacks with no economy (and it didn't sell well at all so it will be interesting to see if Blizz even bothers with ROS for console).
D3 PC ROS Loot 2.0 sounds like the definitive ARPG and I can't wait. I did give POE a solid shot and while the economy is pretty great, the gameplay itself isn't as fun as D3's.
FrontalMonk
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My wife had this problem. We called and got it taken care of, the blizz support guy was solid. Was a little dicey there for a minute, she had to guess on the card number digits tied to her account because it was an old card she doesn't use anymore.
Stolen from Reddit, but someone got this amulet drop, has to be #1 Barb amulet in the world. Fucking insane. Bidding is currently up to 120 billion lol
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=69005026&f=190&o=0
http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=69005026&f=190&o=0
Gold is going to be worthless come RoS. There is just to much of it floating around now and there will be no AH to dump it in to.
It is not going to be worthless. Gold can still be a more effecting measurement of trade than any other stuff in the game, unless we really want the Stone Age of Path of Exile-style bartering (which only helps the sharks....).
Besides, gold will always be relevant, more so than ever in D2. Why?
a. It does not come THAT fast, especially if you keep on crafting
b. The mystic will be introduced, and the devs plan on setting the prices relatively high.
c. Do not let current rich player's pockets fool you, it is pretty much impossible to get 1,000,000,000 gold ingame without selling stuff in the AH. You do not get millions per hours unless. Realistically, it is much, much lower. And that means that gold is actually a second bottleneck to all-around crafting, in addition to Demonic Essence.
True enough, but if bidding was up to 120 bill, do you really need that much for crafting and stuff? Take a decent chunk of gold, then sell the rest on the rmah, profit.
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